Biographical Info

Born about 1826 to Phil and Phoeba, Lucinda first appears in the historical record in Zachariah Lamar’s 1832 will, when her ownership was transferred to John B. Although records show that she was hired out in 1841, she likely spent the majority of her short life with her family on the Swift Creek plantation. Sadly, John B. noted in a letter on April 22, 1846, that Lucinda was “riding [a mule] from the field, to the house with the other plough hands, and had the traces wound up to form a sort of stirrup. The mule shied out of the road & threw her, & her feet hitching in the traces, she was dragged to death.” She was only 20 years old.

Sketch written by Maxim Bannikov, Vania Dominick, Thomas Nilsen, Ritvik Shah